Category: SOURCE=roadside markers

• Republic of Indian Stream (Highway Marker #0001)

  

  “Once a sovereign nation”…

  Marek

  7 May, 2018

  1800-1899, 1830s, 1840s, constitution, SOURCE=roadside markers

  Canada, constitution, Indian Stream, markers, Pittsburg, United States

• Frontier Quarrels

  

  Five reasons for the raid…

  Marek

  10 January, 2017

  1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, corn, cotton mather, cows, fish, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston

• Hannah Dustin in the Snow

  

  A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre…

  Marek

  5 December, 2016

  1600-1699, 1690s, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

  Hannah Dustin, highway, history, markers, Penacook, truth

• Hannah Dustin (1697)

  

  “Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)

  Marek

  4 December, 2016

  1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston, haverhill, Massachusetts, massacre, raid

• Swett 4: Wheel Trouble

  

  1865: Swett’s train ride to the mountains goes smoothly … until the wheels come off!

  Marek

  10 January, 2013

  1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, Connecticut, SOURCE=HHS, SOURCE=roadside markers, Vermont, William B. Swett

  train, well’s river, William B. Swett

• In Goshen, It WAS a War…

  

  Now here’s something interesting we couldn’t help but notice about the John W. Gunnison roadside historical marker in Goshen…

  Marek

  1 December, 2012

  1850s, death, Goshen, graves & memorials, SOURCE=roadside markers

  goshen, John Gunnison

• Historic Handshake (Claremont, 1995)

  

  In a way, this might be one of NH’s strangest Highway Historical Markers…

  Marek

  30 November, 2012

  1990s, Claremont, politics, SOURCE=roadside markers

  Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich

• Young Chase at Keene

  

  Tragedies, travels, & teenage failures of one of New Hampshire’s most powerful exports…

  Marek

  28 November, 2012

  1800s, 1810s, 1820s, Connecticut, Cornish, death, education, glass, hiking, judicial branch, Keene, Roxbury, Salmon P. Chase, SOURCE=Griffin, SOURCE=roadside markers, sources, Vermont

  Keene, nh, Salmon P. Chase

• Wanted: Your Artwork!

  

  (Slightly re-touched photo from recent LFAD tour of NH Highway Historical Markers…) Send us your “LIVE FREE AND DRAW” image

  Marek

  28 November, 2012

  SOURCE=roadside markers, Wanted: Your Artwork!

• Capt. John W. Gunnison (Goshen)

  

  A roadside marker in Goshen hints at stories & mysteries from the Wild West…

  Marek

  26 November, 2012

  1810s, 1830s, 1850s, death, education, Goshen, graves & memorials, SOURCE=roadside markers

  CO, goshen, Hopkinton, John Gunnison, massacre, St. Louis, UT, West Point

• Frederick Douglass Visits Pittsfield (1842)

  

  The famous abolitionist finds both prejudice and humanity in a NH graveyard: Douglass visited Pittsfield as part of a speaking tour through New England.  

  Marek

  14 November, 2012

  1840s, graves & memorials, Pittsfield, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1842, abolition, Frederick Douglass, grave, moses norris Jr., Pittsfield, slavery

• Moses Trussell (New London)

  

  Wounded at Bunker Hill, and everything after…

  Marek

  10 November, 2012

  1770s, 1840s, education, forestry, graves & memorials, Hopkinton, John Stark, Massachusetts, New London, Plaistow, revolutionary era, SOURCE=roadside markers